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Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825 : useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment
- Title
- Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825 : useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment / K.A. Manley.
- Author
- Manley, K. A. (Keith A.)
- Publication
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 248 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It underpinned the spread of rural workers' reading societies in Ulster and urban middle-class private subscription libraries among the Anglo-Irish and educated Catholics, paralleled by the growth of commercial circulating libraries that concentrated on light fiction. But libraries could be controversial. In 1798, libraries were destroyed by government troops - knowledge in its printed form was considered dangerous by some, while the rise of Protestant tract societies encouraged Catholic chapel and other local religious libraries for the poorer classes. The crucial idea behind all of these libraries was that of borrowing books held in common, with the borrower having freedom of choice over what was borrowed. Private libraries too, demonstrate how they related to ideas of 'self-help' and reveal networks of book borrowing, as in the case of Maria Edgeworth. This book explains the rise of these libraries in the context of their times, with a substantial appendix that identifies them by name, address, date and type, with bibliographical and, where necessary, archival references.--Dust jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and indexes.
- Contents
- Ecclesiastical beginnings and mutual improvement -- Workers' reading societies to 1800 -- Middle-class subscription libraries to 1800 -- Circulating libraries to 1800 -- Circulating libraries after 1800 -- Middle-class subscription libraries after 1800: large towns and cities -- Middle-class subscription libraries after 1800: smaller towns -- Workers' reading societies after 1800 -- Pirvate libraries, mutual benefit, and book clubs -- Religious and school libraries -- Subscription libraries after 1825.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-513
- ISBN
- 1846827175
- 9781846827174
- OCLC
- 1019632575
- Author
- Manley, K. A. (Keith A.), author.
- Title
- Irish reading societies and circulating libraries founded before 1825 : useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment / K.A. Manley.
- Publisher
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-513